Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[bparrish]

John...

There has always been a process where the judges come to you.  That has to exist  because scenery is not real portable.  Similarly with electric and engineering which includes track work.  There are a few ways to make a module of track and move it.

There must be some known cadre of judges you can start a conversation with. 

See ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

John...

There has always been a process where the judges come to you.  That has to exist  because scenery is not real portable.  Similarly with electric and engineering which includes track work.  There are a few ways to make a module of track and move it.

There must be some known cadre of judges you can start a conversation with. 

See ya
Bob

Bob


I'm just getting started at the local division of the NMRA - I'm sure there are judges. When I was working I didn't have time for the local meetings.  I have been to a few Nationals.  I have been a regular at Narrow Gauge Conventions for many years.

[S&S RR]

I made some more progress on the trestle today.  It sure is a lot easier building trestles on your work bench rather than in location on the layout like the last two that I built.

[bparrish]

John...

Just amazing..

Thanx
Bob

[EricQuebec]

John...

Just amazing..

Thanx
Bob

Ditto

Eric Quebec city

[S&S RR]

John...

Just amazing..

Thanx
Bob

Bob


Thank you for the encouraging words.

[S&S RR]

John...

Just amazing..

Thanx
Bob

Ditto






Eric Quebec city

Eric


Thank you for the encouraging words.  The bents are complete for the second trestle so I should get started on that today.  I need more clamps.

[Twopoint2]

John the trestle build looks awesome, now I know why I cannot find any of those clamps in the store.

[S&S RR]

John the trestle build looks awesome, now I know why I cannot find any of those clamps in the store.

Jim


Thanks for the kind words.  I bought the clamps for making super tree aspen trees a few years back.  I bought a couple dozen of them on one of those super sales where being that many made since.  I wish I would of bought 4 dozen of them.  Extremely useful.  I don't know how I could have built the trestles without them.  They just reach those places where you can't fit another clamp.

[S&S RR]

I just removed my last bent out of my old trusted bent gluing fixture for this part of the layout.  Any new trestles will be design change additions or future expansion. If you look closely, you can see some of the modification that were made for the HOn3 trestle bents.  I glued up 60 trestles that made it on the layout in this fixture.  There were many trial bents made along the way. The fixture went back in it's place in my storage cabinet waiting for the next trestle build.

[barrymk]

When I first looked at this I thought one of those circus knife throwers had been practicing here until I saw the trestle!!

[S&S RR]

When I first looked at this I thought one of those circus knife throwers had been practicing here until I saw the trestle!!

It sure does look weird with all the clamps.  All the knife throwing happens off camera.

[bparrish]

Yeah... what was the Edward scissors hands gig ? ? ?

see ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

The first pile of sticks is now a trestle - some detailing work and track to do and it's ready to plant on the layout.  The second pile of sticks awaits.

[bparrish]

John...

Just magnificent....

Are you going to include NBW's where it shows on this as part of you detail list?

Also.....  If you EVER think that you would want to hand lay the track I have a bunch of old Kemtron tie plates still in the original packages that I would happily donate to the cause of you getting this judged.

Let me know.

see ya
Bob